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Brexit – Common Travel Area – Freedom of Movement – UK/EU Withdrawal AgreementMemorandum of Understanding • August 14th, 2019
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concluded between the UK and Ireland in May 2019 provides one of the few clear legacies of Theresa May’s premiership. The Common Travel Area (CTA) between Ireland, the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man has long lacked legal definition. Nonetheless, for decades, it has provided the basis for domestic immigration and nationality laws which permit Irish citizens to reside in the UK and for them to be treated as ‘not-foreign’ in the context of UK domestic laws concerning access to healthcare, employment, social security, political participation and education. The UK and Ireland reciprocate, to a rough extent, these rights for each other’s citizens. The MoU and related developments are first steps towards clarifying the CTA’s scope. The manner in which this MoU was concluded, and the rush to alter parts of the UK’s domestic law relating to the CTA, nonetheless speak to the fragile state of Ireland/UK relations after the Brexit referendum. This
